Shoot the Horses First

Angstman, Leah

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***Winner of the Shorts Award for Americana Fiction*** A debut collection of genre-bending short histories and novellas spanning 16th- through early 20th-century. Through a historian's lens and folkloric storytelling, the pieces in SHOOT THE HORSES FIRST revel in the nuances, brutality, mythology, and tiny victories of our historical past. A launderer takes us inside the linens of the richest families in early Baltimore. A child on the Orphan Train has his teeth inspected like a horse. Civil War soldiers experience PTSD. While one woman lands on an island of the Wampanoag tribe, a woman 200 years later finds Apache in a harsh frontier. Children survive yellow fever, the desert heat, and mistaken identities; men survive severed fingers, untested medicines, and wives with obsessive compulsive disorders. Frederick Douglass' grandson plays violin at the World's Fair on Colored American Day, a woman with disabilities is kept hidden away like she doesn't exist, and a botanist is denied her place in a science journal because she is female. Themes of place, war, mental illness, identity, disability, feminism, and unyielding optimism throughout harrowing desperation resurface in this collection of stories that takes us back to time immemorial, yet feels so close, and all too familiar.
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Schrijver
Angstman, Leah
Titel
Shoot the Horses First
Uitgever
Kernpunkt Press
Jaar
2023
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
238
EAN
9781734306590
Bindwijze
Paperback

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